Cynthia & Xiao S/S 2020 Known For: Being a VERY mall-friendly city. Having residents that love the act of shopping, and have the income to do it. The Tsim Sha Tsui neighborhood of Hong Kong Shopping Districts: Wan Chai: Wan Chai isn't strictly a fashion shopping district, per se, but it is home to…
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Yohji Yamamoto Spring 2020 Known For: Too much to list. Spawning some of the most avant-garde names in the fashion industry, including Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto, and Junya Watanabe, among others. Also, Harajuku fashion. Shibuya Shopping Districts: Shibuya: Shibuya is the epicenter of Japanese street culture. Tourists and cool young things tend to congregate…
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Photo c/o Vogue Known For: The most amazing street style that we've seen in ages Dongdaemun Design Plaza Shopping Districts: Dongdaemun Market: Home to Dongdaemun Design Plaza, location of Seoul Fashion Week, Dongdaemun Market is Korea’s largest wholesale and retail shopping district. It contains 26 shopping malls, 30,000 speciality shops, and 50,000 manufacturers -…
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The coronavirus pandemic has us here at Manic Metallic in a contemplative mindset – as we’re sure that it does for many others. As restrictions on movement are beginning to lift worldwide and we begin attempts at living a normal existence (though let’s face it, there is no more “normal”), we are thinking of…
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Kate Moss & Mark Wahlberg for Calvin Klein Nudity, by definition, is the absence of clothing on the human body. So, what does nudity have to do with fashion? And wouldn't it seem that the success of nudity as an accepted concept in the public sphere leaves no room for the success of an…
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We live in a very strange and unprecedented timeline. Serious income inequality, pandemics, the deterioration of our planet due to deliberate human error. What are we to do as a people? One thing we know is that these issues are so dire that it'd be unproductive to concentrate on them every second of our…
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Tonight, I had the pleasure of attending the Fall/Winter collection launch for The Kooples, held at their Meatpacking District boutique. It was a crowded affair, as the brand has a devoted following. As one entered, there was a DJ stationed at the door and full clothing racks waiting to be perused. Right away I…
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Gigi Hadid (left) and Bella Hadid (right) Let's try an exercise: Name five fashion models that are well-known right now. It wouldn't be all that unexpected if your answer went something along the lines of "Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner....wait, who are the other models? Does Kylie count?" Or maybe if you watch…
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To explain the entirety of who André Leon Talley is could take centuries. If one were going to describe him in short form, you could call him a fashion industry tastemaker; that's exactly what "The Gospel According To André" does. It did a wonderful job of displaying André's taste and persona in all of…
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House of Schiaparelli headpiece. Photo © Manic Metallic 2019 Camp is an indefinable fashion concept. The 2019 Met Costume Institute spring exhibition sought to define it somewhat, which is no small task. Enter Susan Sontag. As a writer, she took on the herculean task of doing this in 1964; her work "Notes On 'Camp'"…
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